What's your favorite Who song?

[charlie and algernon]

Poll question: What's your favorite Who song?

[Deep13]

1. Ain't got no distractions-can't hear no buzzers or bells.

Don't see no lights flashin'--plays by sense of smell....

Have you heard the "lost verse" variation of Who Are You?

[charlie and algernon]

3. no, I haven't

you have a video or clip of it?

[Deep13]

4. 'Fraid not. It's on the re-release of the Who Are You album (CD). nt

[charlie and algernon]

6. Well that's another CD I'll have to buy

[Deep13]

2. Also, I'm a seeker, I'm a really desperate man.

Just sayin'.

[charlie and algernon]

5. that's a great song too

and it's fun to play on Guitar Hero 3

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. Won't Get Fooled Again.

[scheming daemons]

8. The World Health Organization has songs?

[Deep13]

10. Yeah, they're awesome.

They have a double album just on mental health problems.

[scheming daemons]

9. Who's your favorite What song?

[Inchworm]

11. Who's on first...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejweI0EQpX8

:hi:

[Bennyboy]

12. Love, Reign O'er Me!

Anything off of Quadrophenia. 5:15, Drowned....

[IcyPeas]

24. agree 100% with Love Reign O'er me: 5:15.......

I love that movie. never get sick of it. and i'm far from my teen angst years, yet it puts you right back there.

we are the mods, we are the mods, we are, we are, we are the mods.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

41. +1 more

The most magnificent thing Pete ever wrote, though as a bass guitarist I am also a big fan of "The Real Me," where the Ox stands toe to toe with Roger in getting the song across. Does he ever!

[Turbineguy]

45. Bell Boy

music for a collapsed civilization.

[keroro gunsou]

53. +1

hell, +1^1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

yes, i like quadrophenia that much.

[Inspired]

54. + another 1

[EastTennesseeDem]

13. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!!!!

REIGN O'ER ME! REIGN O'ER ME O'ER ME O'ER ME!

[Va Lefty]

14. "The Kids Are Alright"

[hobbit709]

15. I Can See For Miles

[no name no slogan]

16. "Can't Explain"

Pure pop masterpiece.

"Tattoo" is a close second. "Bargain" is a close #3.

[KamaAina]

17. I Can't Explain, 'cause it was covered by Hawaii musical goddess Yvonne Elliman

her version was popular on our then-classic rock station (now a '70s-'80s format called "The Ride") a couple of years ago.

Unaccountably, it has yet to appear on the grand stage of YouTube. :(

[billyoc]

18. Sea and Sand

What did I see,
WHERE have I been...

[hobbit709]

19. Boris The Spider

[NoGOPZone]

20. Happy Jack

followed by Substitute. The Who did their best work in the 60s. I think Townshend let Who's Next go to his head.

[old mark]

21. Anold one from the first album, "The Kids Are All Right". I also liked

the entire album "Live at Leeds" - I played the first copy I had so much I actually wore it out.


mark

[NightWatcher]

22. I cant hear a Who tune without looking to see if CSI is coming on

[kimmerspixelated]

23. Imminence Front!

[IcyPeas]

25. "Eminence" Front -- - I used to think it was imminent front :-)

The sun shines and people forget
The spray flies as the speedboat glides, and people forget
Forget they're hiding

The girls smile and people forget
The snow packs as the skier tracks, and people forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
Eminence front, it's a put on
It's an eminence front
It's an eminence front, it's a put on
An eminence front
Eminence front, it's a put on, eminence front
It's an eminence front
It's an eminence front, it's a put on, it's a put on, it's a put on, it's a put on

Come and join the party, dressed to kill
Won't you come and join the party, dressed to kill
Dressed to kill

Drinks flow, people forget
That big wheel spins, the hair thins, people forget, forget they're hiding
The news slows, people forget
The shares crash, hopes are dashed, people forget
Forget they're hiding

Behind an eminence front
An eminence front, it's a put on
It's just an eminence front
An eminence front, it's a put on
An eminence front
An eminence front, it's a put on
Eminence front
It's an eminence front, it's a put on, it's a put on, it's a put on, it's a put on

Come and join the party, dressed to
Come and join the party, dressed to
Come on join the party, dressed to
Come on join the party, dressed to kill
Dress yourself to kill

[kimmerspixelated]

40. OOps!

I stand corrected. Thanks for the lyrics!

[Arugula Latte]

44. Another good song from that same album (It's Hard) is "Athena."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRx3NZ-qp4

[gbate]

39. Another vote for Eminence Front!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. Bargain.

Going Mobile 2nd, then it gets confusing. Too many songs tied at 3rd.

[BeachBaby]

27. It was always Baba OReilly, until about 5 years ago.

I was visitng some Vietnam vets at Walter Reed hospital. I was talking to one of them about his tour - and somehow we wandered off on the topic of the music that was popular during the war.

He told me that "Behind Blue Eyes" was, to him, a letter to the government - from an American soldier who was drafted and sent to Vietnam.

When he first told me that story, I was completely confused. So, when I got home, I pulled my Who CDs and listened to it. Really listened to it. And wow - just wow. I see what he means.

Try listening to it from that perspective. It's very interesting. I never hear "Behind Blue Eyes" without thinking of him now.

[Mad_Dem_X]

28. "Behind Blue Eyes", but

"Love Reign O'er Me" is a close second.

[gmoney]

29. "Substitute" ...and Quadrophenia is way better than Tommy (eom)

[cherish44]

30. "We're Not Gonna Take It"

The last song on the Tommy album not the Twisted Sister song. Well duh! :)

[Kajsa]

31. Another vote for 'Eminence Front'.

and-- I know Tina Turner sang it, but

'Acid Queen' rocks!

[Initech]

32. Tie between "Eminence Front", "Boris The Spider", and "A Quick One While He's Away".

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[flvegan]

34. Don't recognize that one. Can you hum a few bars?

[charlie and algernon]

35. oh that's a lost song from their rock opera Tommy

Supposed to come after Pinball Wizard. Tommy spends so much money playing pinball he needs to go around asking for donations. It's a pretty powerful song, I'm disappointed they left it off the album.

[Sebastian Doyle]

36. Her man's been gone for nigh on a year. He was due home yesterday

but he ain't here.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JswmWPmdCC0

[appal_jack]

37. Squeezebox for the wonderful innuendo (n/t)

[Arugula Latte]

43. When I was a kid that song puzzled me.

I knew it was somehow "dirty" but I couldn't figure out why.

[Capn Sunshine]

38. Sparks, from " Live at Leeds"

At the Height of their power
I just noticed, Roger isn't in this. But still.....

[mvd]

42. So many good Who songs.. "I'm Free" is underrated

:hi:

[martymar64]

46. Sally Simpson

Also Magic Bus, I Can't Explain, Legal Matter, I'm a Boy, and many, many others.

[Midlodemocrat]

47. Long Live Rock or The Seeker.

[vi5]

48. Baba O'Reilly...best classic rock song ever....

Even though I don't really consider myself a big Who fan at all (I prefer Zeppelin, Sabbath, The Stones, etc.) that song stands as one of the greatest musical and lyrical statements in rock and roll history. So fucking amazing, every time I hear it.

[rucky]

49. 5:15

[Amerigo Vespucci]

50. The live version of "Baba O'Riley" on "The Kids Are Alright"...

...Shepperton Studios, one of the final Keith Moon performances. When Townshend comes in on guitar right after "I don't need to be forgiven," it's the biggest fat-assed chord I've heard him play other than the one that follows "I used to follow you back in '63" on "Bell Boy" from "Quadrophenia."

:toast:

[Sugarcoated]

51. Really, every song on side 2 of Quadraphenia

back when there were sides. So many 'effing great Who songs. I suppose, all things considered it would be I'm One.

[Danmel]

52. Pretty much all of quadrophenia

but my personal favorite is Pure & easy- although I like Pete's solo version better- his singins is so sweet and pure.


There once was a note pure and easy
Playing so free like a breath rippling by
The note is eternal
I hear it, it sees me
Forever we blend as forever we die

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

As people assemble
civilization is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really merely scene changer
All men are bored with other men's lives

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

Gas on the hillside
Oil in the tea cup
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness
The note that began all can also destroy

We all know success when we all find our own dream
And our love is enough to knock down any wall
And the future's been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
In us all

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

Today is the day, the sound covers mountains
Flowing and blowing each man in its wake
Destroying itself in the end with vibration
There's nothing on earth it's challenge can take
Excepting one note

Excepting one note pure and easy
Playing so free like breath rippling by

Excepting one note
Excepting one note
Excepting one note, pure and easy
Excepting one note, pure and easy
(repeated)

There once was a note listen
There once was a note listen
There once was a note listen

[Faygo Kid]

55. Summertime Blues, on Live at Leeds. Rock on.

Great post, with no bad choices. But that's mine.